Tara Setmayer

Tara Olivia Setmayer (9 September 1975-) was a Republican political commentator on CNN.

Biography
Tara Olivia Setmayer was born in Queens, New York City in 1975 and raised in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey. She became a research fellow and communications specialist for the nonprofit organization CURE, which dealt with inner-city social policies, and, from 2006 to 2013, she worked in the US House of Representatives as communications director for Dana Rohrabacher of California and handled immigration and law enforcement issues. After serving as GOP Communications Director on Capitol Hill, she went on to become an ABC News political contributor and a CNN political commentator. On 8 August 2019, she heavily criticized Donald Trump for making fun of Beto O'Rourke and several anti-Trump rally attendees during his visit to the town of El Paso in the aftermath of a white supremacist attack. She reminded CNN host Brooke Baldwin of an ideal response to criticism after a tragedy: when the mother of a wounded serviceman criticized George W. Bush during a visit to a field hospital, Bush took the insults without argument, and later privately and tearfully confided in an ABC journalist that he deserved the mother's criticism.